Keeping Resources Local
Everly's mission of contributing to a more sustainable, caring community was inspired by our team's history in thrift. We saw the results of overconsumption firsthand while serving customers who were often the most in-need of affordable resources. How can there be so much need in a world that creates so much excess?
That's where we come in, bridging the gap between overconsumption and resource disparity.
With the support of our partner, Magpie Thrift, we take unsold or excess donations from their stores and help get them to other organizations who can use them, including food, medical equipment, clothing, and more. This serves our mission in three big ways:
Reusing resources has a much lower environmental impact than buying new, and by keeping these items in circulation
What We Have To Give
This program is primarily supported by way of Magpie Thrift
Who We Give To
This program is best suited to organizations who can commit to regular weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly pickups in Shoreline, WA where our redistribution center is currently housed.
Local Artists or Businesses
Especially Queer folks! If you are an artist working in upcycled materials or other found objects, get in touch to see how we might be able to contribute
Nonprofits
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Like Seattle REconomy or Treehouse for Kids
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Like the Seattle Community Fridge or WHEEL
Mutual Aid Groups
Though we're working on ways to support more direct giving in the future, our organization is not well-equipped to offer emergency responses to individuals experiencing immediate crisis.
If you are someone in-need of a one-time donation that fits the description above, you can still submit a request. We cannot guarantee individualized services but will do our best to support or redirect you depending on our capacity.
Taking Back Our Trash
Modern recycling programs can often feel out of reach for everyday folks. When the real impact gets lost in a fog of greenwashing, data points, and technical jargon, it's easy to lose focus.
There isn't one simple fix. But cutting down what we have to throw away in the first place is a good start. Why not pass it along to someone else instead?
Asking for what we need and offering to share what we have in return, makes our community stronger. But it's hard to find time to create those connections and do that labor when you're already doing all the other work it takes to be human. That's where we'd like to come in.
What does this look like?
Our resource redistribution team will work on forming relationships with groups across Seattle to help exchange, ruse, or thoughtfully dispose of their discarded items. Eventually, we hope to expand this beyond our city and even develop our own recycling centers for the things we can't redistribute.
Sending gardening items to community gardens
Donating to local tool sharing programs
Books for Little Free Libraries
Art supplies to nonprofits who need them
Clothes to free closets
Fabric or textiles to local artists or upcyclers
Why Resource Sharing?
How We Give
Sorting out clean, wearable, unsold donations for various nonprofit or mutual aid groups
Collecting and storing nonperishable food, medical supplies, and toiletries to the Seattle Community Fridge (as well as hosting a public collection box!)
Sorting and transporting extra or unsold children's books to Mary's Place Seattle or Treehouse for Kids
Sorting and storing usable or repairable goods to Seattle REconomy. Donations are who either kept for the Shoreline Tool Library or passed onto KidVantage, the Furniture Repair Bank, and Seattle Recreative
How Magpie Thrift Helps
What's Next
Expand giving program to more community groups in our areas
Introduce more direct recycling options for in-store waste, and eventually opening these options up to our community, too!
Especially for hard to dispose of items like electronics
Continue partnering with local orgs to distribute more impactful donations
Work with Everly's Senior Support Program to reduce personal waste for in-need community members
Community Recycling Stations
Once we build out our network, we hope to create accessible, public recycling stations to collect items from the community that they need help recycling, like electronics, contaminated plastics, and other difficult to dispose of items.
What We're Working Towards
More Education and Reporting
We are working, with the help of our Intern and volunteers, to share information and to educate about the current state of recycling in Washington State. Whether this is researching companies that follow through, or not, with promises of recycling materials, or introducing and highlighting companies that currently are making a difference.
Our team will continue to post blogs on companies or issues they we have investigated. We'd love to have the community to send in ideas or questions they would like answered, too!
Get in touch
Do you or your organization have something you'd like to share? Get in touch, and let's see how we can connect
